kLIMLEY COMMUNICATIONS --giving your content strong impact

Klimley Communications is a marketing/communications firm dedicated to helping companies and organizations create the right brand and expand their visibility with key audiences.

The firm was founded in the 1980s by April W. Klimley to provide analyst and press relations for financial institutions--money center banks,investment banking firms, and community banks. The material produced ranged from annual reports and investor relations presentations to press releases and speeches. The firm also produced appealing marketing materials for institutions such as Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs.

​Over the next few years, we moved into other markets creating advertising sections for business publications such as ​Fortune, Business Week (now Blumburg), and the Harvard Business Review. We also handled a number of projects in the employee benefit field explaining employee benefit plans and products like 401(ks). At Institutional Investor, we created multiple advertising sections and a marketing program--"Puzzled"--to help sales rep cross-sell the company's many specialized newsletters.

Another area of expertise was diversity and inclusion. This started when I wrote "Borrowing Basics for Women" at Citibank early in my career. It included writing special sections for Black Enterprise Magazine, a diversity annual report for an oil company, and diversity newsletters for an engineering firm as well as Deloitte. For several years, I edited a well known online journal, The Diversity Factor, founded by Elsie B. Cross; during that time I was able to broaden and strengthen the content which included practitioner, academic, and personal commentary. [Shown right: brochure aimed at high net worth women; one of a series of four produced for Merrill Lynch.]

PDMA's Visions magazine on corporate innovation.

​In addition to diversity, I developed an expertise in the field of New Product Development while editing Visions Magazine for a decade. Visions is the quarterly of the Product Development and Management Association which I transformed into their flagship publication. It won four years while I was editor in chief from 2001 to 2011.

Ocean beach in Ft. Lauderdale

​Following that, after moving to Florida, much of my focus has been on news reporting, art criticism, ghostwriting ebooks and print books, as well as custom publishing and teaching memoir writing.